Name: I want to build a band that sounds like Jimmy Shand by Mairi Campbell
Duration: 3 min 19 s
Description: Features in Mairi Campbell: Living Stone show. This is about the Lismore Dance band - established in 2022 on the island of Lismore, Argyll, Scotland.

Scotlands most famous song. Sung at New Year. This version is the original tune.  Words are traditional and Robert Burns added a couple of verses.  Thanks for listening.
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1 Auld Lang Syne

LYRICS
D/Am
Making the space/ taking the time
Finding the place/ making the rhyme
Let my fingers flow/ the keys steal the show
Black and white/ let melody take flight
Time to tell a tale/bring the words to life
Story is forming/no time for any strife
I need this in my life 

51 words in total but 4 or 5 of them are repeated ☺️🎶🎹🎤

D/Am - 04/07/2022.mp3

LYRICS
Frida, you’re a furnace burning bright
Enlightening the dark with your colours and light
Seems to me that you’re never gonna beg
But I cannot imagine what it’s like to lose a leg

Frida, you’re a woman strong and wild, 
A life of pain since you were a child
Will your body break will Diego come around
no way that ugly bastard’s going to walk upon my ground. 
 
Paint the flowers in my hair and the eyebrow and the stare
And let the people judge  if they dare
Paint the flowers in my hair and my eyebrow and my stare
And let the people judge -  I don’t care.

Freda you’re an icon your life’s a work of art
We’d call you feisy besom if you lived around these parts
But since you don’t and since I do
I’m gonna paint this town pink green and blue

Paint the flowers in my hair and the eyebrow and the stare
And let the people judge -  if they dare

.Paint the flowers in my hair and my eyebrow and my stare
And let the people judge -  I don’t care.

Maybe if I’d lost a limb 
I’d know how lucky I was too
And wouldn’t waste my precious life, 
chasing after you.

Paint the flowers in my hair and the eyebrow and the stare
And let the people judge -  if they dare
.Paint the flowers in my hair and my eyebrow and my stare
And let the people judge -  I don’t care.

Sampler

Frida

Features in Mairi Campbell: Living Stone show. This is about the Lismore Dance band - established in 2022 on the island of Lismore, Argyll, Scotland.
 

I want to build a band that sounds like Jimmy Shand

A rumblin'
buildin'
drivin'
funkin'
brass workout.

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AEDktjBdI&feature=youtu.be

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Mairi Campbell is a musician, performing artist and facilitator. She brings a powerful injection of deep craft, groundedness and elemental spirit to her music.

I want to build a band that sounds like Jimmy Shand

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